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Title: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: Benzedrex on August 31, 2014, 03:45:36 AM I have gone through 2 power supplies in 24 hours
every time i connect it runs at 180 gh and gives of a buring smell i clipped the blue wire to make the fan run at full speed, why do my power supply keep buring out? they overheat and die has anyone heard of this? Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: DrG on August 31, 2014, 03:49:31 AM It would help if you told us what power supplies you're using and what kind of ambient temps you are in. Are you overclocking the S3? What frequency? What firmware are you running? Are you on 120v or 240v?
Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: Benzedrex on September 01, 2014, 04:38:43 AM I used some unnamed one at 550 and a thermal-take at 600 but i read up and realized it was drawing too many watts through one pcie and burned them out, i researched and bought a cx750m and haven't had a problem, up and running for 4 hours
Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: Benzedrex on September 01, 2014, 07:49:24 AM Also
Ambient temp is 72 running temp now is 35 after 7hrs of runtime no overclock now (s1) and may be planning on doing it to 375 and maybe 400 is all goes well and it runs for 24 hrs at least with no problem at stock i am using a 120v plug anything i should be doing that i am not? im new to this Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: tipsysnake on September 03, 2014, 04:18:46 PM You added the second fan so you have push pull. This helped cooling mine no end.
Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: lowbander80 on September 04, 2014, 06:59:07 AM no name china PSU are mostly overrated so if you see large numbers 750W expect 400-500 when 850 expect 450-550.
Buy better brand or server PSU Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: spiceminer15 on September 08, 2014, 05:40:37 PM I burnt up a thermalake 600w PSU I got for free in about 5 mins with a single S1 and normal speeds... what a piece of junk.
used lots of 650w corsair PSUs with no problems. even used several 500w server psus with no problems Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: DrG on September 08, 2014, 06:43:02 PM If the PSU weighs less than 3 pounds it's probably trash (for mining at least). Compare weights between a Seasonic 500W and a Raidmax 500W - almost a 2 pound difference in weight.
For the more technical people all you need to do is look at the 12V specs and see how many Amps the PSU can output. Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: spiceminer15 on September 08, 2014, 06:47:16 PM If the PSU weighs less than 3 pounds it's probably trash (for mining at least). Compare weights between a Seasonic 500W and a Raidmax 500W - almost a 2 pound difference in weight. For the more technical people all you need to do is look at the 12V specs and see how many Amps the PSU can output. yea the thermalake ones are so light. I thought there was something missing lol Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: DrG on September 08, 2014, 07:21:08 PM If the PSU weighs less than 3 pounds it's probably trash (for mining at least). Compare weights between a Seasonic 500W and a Raidmax 500W - almost a 2 pound difference in weight. For the more technical people all you need to do is look at the 12V specs and see how many Amps the PSU can output. yea the thermalake ones are so light. I thought there was something missing lol Well if you go to PSU review website like http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=201 (http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=201) you will see that they verbally "take apart" the PSU. Cheaper ones use crappy sinks and cheap caps and lower quality components. All that metal does have a cost and the cheap companies don't need to cool the PSUs since they'll blow up before they even get hot for extended times :P Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: jonnybravo0311 on September 09, 2014, 02:29:30 PM If the PSU weighs less than 3 pounds it's probably trash (for mining at least). Compare weights between a Seasonic 500W and a Raidmax 500W - almost a 2 pound difference in weight. Your explanation made me think of Jurassic Park when they were sitting in the trucks by the Tyrannosaurus paddock... the power has gone out and the kids start digging through stuff...Tim pops up wearing night vision goggles.For the more technical people all you need to do is look at the 12V specs and see how many Amps the PSU can output. Gennaro - "Hey, where'd you find that?" Timmy - "In a box under my seat." Gennaro - "Are they heavy?" Timmy - "Yeah" Gennaro - "Then they're expensive. Put them back." Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: airpline1 on September 09, 2014, 09:53:58 PM I'm using the Thermal-Take one, Don't use the PCIe piggy backing on the other one. Use 1 PCI-e and cut the ATX wires and connect them to the Ground and +12v on the antminer, if you want...
Title: Re: Antminer S1 keeps burning out PSU Post by: pmorici on September 11, 2014, 05:35:44 PM I have gone through 2 power supplies in 24 hours every time i connect it runs at 180 gh and gives of a buring smell i clipped the blue wire to make the fan run at full speed, why do my power supply keep buring out? they overheat and die has anyone heard of this? Sounds like you are using cheapo PSUs. I use the HP DPS-800GBA + Gigampz breakout board for all my S3's they are reliable as heck I've never had one fail and each one can power 2 S3's either stock clocks or over clocked. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622783.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622783.0) |